Contact
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Portrait by Robin Silas Christian

Born 1982
Lives and works in London
Arts practice-based PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London. The excavation of Gully Cave, Somerset and practices of climate reconstruction. Supported by The Kate & Gareth Griffith Scholarship in Quaternary Science from 2019 onwards. a-n Artists Council, outgoing 2022.

 

Selected Exhibitions
2021
Pleasure Garden, Deene Park. Come to Naught, Kingsgate Project Space w. Kristian Day Gallery
2020
Jerwood Makers Open, touring Manchester Art Gallery, Visual Arts Centre and Torre Abbey (2021). HYPERTEXT virtual art book fair
2019
Odds, TOMA Project Space, Southend. 
Art Night Open with SHELL LIKE, Walthamstow.
Verso Nuovi Canoni, ICA Milano.
Jerwood Makers Open Jerwood Space, London, touring nationally until 2021
Ffynnon GwenfaenStudio Cybi at Gwenfaen’s Well, Holy Island, Anglesey
2018
Bound Art Book Fair, The Whitworth, Manchester
Oriel Davies Open, Newtown
Windswept Baby, Victoria & Albert Museum. Solo exhibition and book in collaboration with invited writers. Supported by ACE
2017

Shell-Lit Siambr, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury. Solo
Summer Auction, Syson Gallery Nottingham
The John Ruskin Prize, Millennium Gallery
Residency display, Victoria & Albert Museum
2015
The Bridestones, Award, British Ceramics Biennial
Many a Slip, Marsden Woo summer show, curated by Alison Britton
Shelfie, Manifold select from V&A collection
2014

Pots and Possibilities, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL
2013
Under The Influence & Unfold, Siobhan Davies Studios, with Manifold, invited by 60|40
Danske Oldtidsminder, Apple House Gallery, Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre
Creekside Open 2013 Selected by Ceri Hand, A.P.T. Gallery
The Reveal (Streethouse Excavations
 Residency), Class 1 Gallery, Saltburn
Forming Words, Flow Gallery, London
2012
Appropriate Response, Vulpes Vulpes, London
The Art of Survival and The Ritual Killing of Objects, Airspace Gallery
This Is How To Live, Manifold & National Trust, 2 Willow Road & Red House
Two permanent commissions for THH, curated by Artsadmin
2011
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space
Fresh, BCB, Stoke-On-Trent
Stick-Up, Airspace Gallery

2010
HotShoe Gallery, London & Galleria Uno Pia Uno, Milan
SHOW1, The Henry Moore Gallery, RCA
Oberon Illustration Awards, RCA (& 2009)
2009
Einfall, The Freud Museum

2004 – 2009 Various UK & US

Writing
The filthy wallpaper or Sill Sigilata, Commissioned by artist Emily Speed as part of the forthcoming book TERRA COTTA
The image of wherever it is placed, Commissioned by designer Ian McIntyre for the launch of the re-engineered Brown Betty teapot
Multiple texts alongside own work

Residencies
2016-17 Artist in Residence, Victoria & Albert Museum, Ceramics
Working week with Grizedale Arts at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Aug 2016). Volunteer residency, Grizedale Arts, Coniston (Apr 2015)
2014 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL
2013 Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre
2012 Airspace Gallery & Potteries Museum, Conjunction 12, The Art of Survival.
Street House Archaeological Dig, Loftus, North Yorkshire
2009 Royal Crown Derby Factory

Education
MA Ceramics and Glass, Excellent Pass
Royal College of Art 2010
Personal tutor Alison Britton OBE

BDes 3D Design, First class honours with distinction
Manchester Metropolitan University 2006
(& Blaker Akershus College, Norway, Spring term 2003)

Awards
2018
ACE Grants for the Arts, Windswept Baby at the V&A
2017 The John Ruskin Prize, Second Prize
2011 The Jerwood Drawing Prize, shortlisted
2010 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Prize, Highly commended
2006 CPA Charitable Trust, St Petersburg research trip

Collections
National Art Library, V&A
National Museums Liverpool
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Grainer Collection of Contemporary British Studio Ceramics, US

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